Pac-Mad, a overcharged Pac-Man for Atari XL/XE has been released

At a glance, Pac-Mad looks like a Pac-Man clone but after looking a little bit further you will realize that it is more than that. First released as a WIP (work in progress) at the demo party Irony 2017 by Wojciech Bociański, the game gathered a lot of attention, even being in the early stages of development. Wojciech then took all the suggestions from the attendees and went back to work.

The game, now in its final version contains nothing less than 30 levels. Based on the feedback, Pac-Mad also has fruits as bonuses, appearing randomly in 3 variants, each brownie has now independent AI, new sound effects, the ability to start at any level and more.

The highlight of this excellent Pac-Man homage is that it is distributed with a level generator, allowing the tweakers out there to create their own version of the game.

Pac-Mad was developed using the language Mad-Pascal, a subset of the Pascal language, allowing developers to cross-develop Atari games using a high-level and easy to use language.

Wojciech Bociański was kind enough to release the source code of the game as well, available on Github.